Bryson Wood, Architecture Portfolio 2018-2019

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Table of Contents

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Information CV.......................................................................04 Personal Statement......................................06

Work

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Machines Ă Discorde: CCA Chartte........07 Veil/ Village......................................................15 Floor 5................................................................27 Containment + Confinement.....................33

Work

(Professional)

Zama House....................................................35 (Junya Ishigami + Associates)

NYCHA: Linden Houses.............................39 (P.R.O. Brooklyn, NY)

Personal Statement

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BRYSON WOOD

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EDUCATION

2015- Present Carleton University, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism Ottawa, ON. Canada (Third Year, Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Design

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BORN October 09, 1996 London, ON. Canada

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CONTACT 92 Baltic Street, Brooklyn NY (929) 334-8326 brysonh.wood@gmail.com

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PORTFOLIO https://issuu.com/brysonwood

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REFERENCES Recommendation Letters + References available upon Request

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ii. WORK EXPERIENCE 09.2017- Present Peterson Rich Office. (P.R.O.) Brooklyn, New York. Design Intern (8 month period), duties including production of design + construction drawings, computer + physically modeled massing studies, competition + lecture focused graphics/ visualizations.

05.2018- 07-2018 Junya Ishigami + Associates Tokyo, Japan. Design Intern (summer term), participated in conceptual design process of competition and commissioned projects, physical/ digital modeling, concept/ schematic design + visualizations + on site landscape assistance.

05.2017- 08.2017 Architects Tillmann Ruth Robinson London, ON. Canada. Design Intern, produced design + working drawings, computer models for massing studies/ visualizations, Adobe Suite + VRay visualizations.

iii. LEADERSHIP + VOLUNTEER 09.2017- 04.2018 Kosmic Chroma Annual event for students of Azrieli School of Architecture + Urbanism. Over saw all creative direction + promotion for the team.

09.2016- 04.2017 Azrieli Architecture Student Association, Promotion + Socials Operated Student Association’s social media presence, produced graphics + promoted student ran events + facilitated communication between faculty and student body.

iv. AWARDS + ACHIEVEMENTS 06.2018 KooZA/rch Featured Publication + Interview, issued for Veil+ Village: Kaigan Community Center (pg.

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09.2017

Carleton University’s Murry + Murry, Director’s Choice Merit, award issued for Containment/ Confinement (pg. 18)

2016-2018

Faculty Choice Award Nomination, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism yearly nominations highlighting select student studio works.

2015- Present

Hyman Soloway Schol Academic Scholarship, Carleton University annual academic grant

v. PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

01.2019

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Lightroom, Sketchup Pro, Rhinoceros 5.0, V-Ray, Autodesk AutoCad, (Developing Skills in Autodesk Revit + Grasshopper).

Personal Statement

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As a third year student studying a Bachelor of Architecture Studies at Carleton University, I pride myself on being a hardworking + self motivated individual.

Through architecture I have developed a deep passion for all areas + scales of design. With my personal + academic studies I aim to challenge ideas that exists comfortably within the design world. I continue to find that I am not simply interested in creating spaces that we know already work. I try to approach each project as an opportunity to test new ideas + positions, all without forgetting that we are ultimately designing for people.

I am always striving learn and create, not only through my own experiences but through listening to others within the studio environment.

Machines à Discorde: CCA Chartte

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A three day competition submitted to the Canadian Centre of Architecture, which asked to explore a collective architectural platform in the city—a new mechanism—for dialogue, resistance, and social movement at the crossroads between physical space, media, and technology.

The Social Platform duplicates and elevates the democratic and communal qualities of Parliament Hill. It is primarily a space that enables interaction, discussion and dispute. Rather than simply conforming to a space for protest, The Social Platform adapts to the numerous facets of human interaction.

Programmatically, the project is extremely flexible; lightweight and modular structure allows for impromptu, ubiquitous and custom assembly. Embracing the digital age, the LED mesh perimeter of The Social Platform acts as a canvas for digital opinions. Posts which grow in popularity, grow in size, as a new scale of digital voice is elevated. c/o James Caruso + Jonathan Carron

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Site Plan, Ottawa, ON. Canada

Machines Ă Discorde: CCA Chartte

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OUR STORY IN 4 IMAGES

1) an ideal(ish) platform for public dialog

2) the people

3) formally elevate said people

4) ...and their message

Project Story

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Platform Plan

Machines Ă Discorde: CCA Chartte

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View from Below

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View from Above

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Machines Ă Discorde: CCA Chartte

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users thoughts + opinions displayed on digital screen

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Veil/Village: Kaigan Community Centre

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02 The project looks to stand as a stepping stone for change in the rundown Tokyo shipyards of Kaigan. Rather than proposing a top down master-plan for the site and subsequently wiping out the local fisheries and shipping ports for total redevelopment, the project shows what is possible in the area. It operates and embraces the natural grittiness of the site, allowing the community to grapple with the change and incrementally move forward.

When approaching the site, I thought it was important to directly address the building’s role within the public realm. With the design process I decided to challenge the traditional typology of a community center and address the idea that a public building such as this should operate with equally public spaces. The program elements of a dojo, library stacks, theater and rowing club take the form of autonomous masses. The masses which operate separately from one another are arrange within the site parameters and covered by a large geometry which is the veil.

This veil, comprised of a sun shading fin system creates a sense of enclosure in an otherwise open aired building. The open aired nature of the building highlights the residual spaces between the masses. These then negotiable spaces which take the form of seminar rooms, study spaces, social areas and gathering nooks along with the array of columns help suggest space as well as help filter circulation from the street’s edge to the water front.

Rather than creating defined perimeter, the projects uses objects in a loose structure to help define the street edge and circulation axis, effectively allows visitors to simply wander through the site.

This act of wandering is coupled with the sense of discovery which ensures that no one is left with a false sense of intrusion.

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Site Plan, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan

Veil/Village: Kaigan Community Centre

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View From Street

Veil/Village: Kaigan Community Centre

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dojo

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FILTER THROUGH SITE: CITY TO SEA

Informal Circulation Path(s) Through Loose Programmatic Massing

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Ground Level Plan

Level 2 Plan

Veil/Village: Kaigan Community Centre

PRIVATE STUDY

GROUP DISCUSSION

GATHERING

Informal Seating as Objects

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SEMINAR

View from Cage

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Exploded Assembly Detail

Veil/Village: Kaigan Community Centre

View in Community Space

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View from Under Theater

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Concept Plan

Veil/Village: Kaigan Community Centre

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SE, Isometric

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Floor 5: Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism

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An addition to the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism.

Occupying the space within the existing 4th floor clerestories and a single floor above, the addition aims to respect the existing structure’s massing and structural rhythm. The addition’s interior projects a wish for open floor plates where program flows and mixes rather than sitting divided by partition walls and corridors. As an organizing method the project consists of two studio platforms on opposing ends of the space.

These platforms focused on individual work and small group discussion look down to an open floor plate filled with a critique/ exhibit space, lecture rooms, private offices, computer labs and collaborative making spaces. The spatial organization creates a hierarchy of program, placing private/individual work away from open collaborative space, actively combating the issues that come with mixing program.

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Concept Plan

Floor 5: Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism

View of 5th Floor

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View of Studio Mezzanine

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Level 5, Plan

Level 5M, Plan

Floor 5: Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism

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Exterior Isometric

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Containment + Confinement

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2017 Murry & Murry Competition, Faculty Choice Merit.

“The word confinement is used rather than the traditional containment to emphasize the difference between the “containment” of radioactive gases that is the primary focus of most reactor containment buildings, and the “confinement” of solid radioactive waste that is the primary purpose of the New Safe Confinement.” The drawing explores an iterative process of pushes and pulls upon the basic cube. It is this process which reveals slippages in the cubes form actively denning their confining nature. These moves then create a composition of objects which sit within the public realm.

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Zama House, Junya Ishigami + associates

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A private home by Junya Ishigami + Associates. Work done during internship within the Tokyo office, summer 2018.

The following spreads are sourced from Junya Ishigami’s published work Freeing Architecture for Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, (March 30/18 Paris, France).

- Junya Ishigami + associates

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Spreads from , Junya Ishigami : Freeing Architecture

Zama House, Junya Ishigami + associates

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Roof/ Garden Plan

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Roof x Roof, P.R.O.

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Research project focusing on new strategies for addressing the current state of New York City’s affordable housing, in particular that of New York City Housing Authority. Completed during internship period with P.R.O. in Brooklyn, NY. “Roof by Roof proposes a strategy to combine the large -scale provision of new affordable housing with the repair, renovation and future proofing of existing stock, with the aim of bringing value to NYCHA as a housing provider and benefiting existing and future residents alike. The fundamental premise of Roof by Roof is to ask how the demand for new affordable housing and requirements for extensive repair and renovation of NYCHA’s existing stock can be met as a part of a combined approach, in the face of large-scale federal funding cuts.”

- Peterson. Rich. Office.

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Ariel Images, New York City Public Housing

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Roof x Roof, P.R.O.

Concept Image

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Building Section

Building Plan

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View of Upper Intervention

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Typical Block Floorplan

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Interior View

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